["packet steve" <packetsteve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're in the top Ethereal directory on a *nix system, try
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:epan/.libs:wiretap/.libs
 gdb .libs/ethereal

(Would be nice to make libtool work though)

> From: Andy Howell <AndyHowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] debug and disector writing
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:58:35 -0600
>
> Miklos Szurdi wrote:
>
> >  I know that the ethereal in the main dir is only a shell script calling 
> > .libs/ethereal...but when i ran ddd on that executable file it still does 
> > not work...:-(
> >  I found a workaround, running ddd with a core file created with 
> > ethereal... not very nice...and it really get things in ddd go crazy
>
> I'd like to know this as well. When I run:
>
> libtool --mode=execute ddd ethereal
>
> gdb does not know where to find the source or symbols, yet it I do "run", 
> it runs it.
>
> I tried to build a static version, but that is broken on Solaris. The flags 
> passed to the linker are wrong, and I was not able to work out why.
>
> Andy
>
>
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